Most of these cards were created using basic shape dies or punches, a paper trimmer and a pair of scissors. The stamps I used on these cards were mostly sentiment or alphabet sets.
Are you ready to see some fun and easy cards made from basic shapes? Let's do this...
Animal Cards
I made these animal cards using circle punches and a little bit of imagination. There is one card using buttons instead of circle punches, but if you don't have any buttons, coloured paper circles would work just fine.
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Rounded rectangle dies made a great backdrop for the sentiment,which I made using an alphabet stamp set.
Two different sized circle punches were used to make the head and body of the bunny. I used the smaller circle punch to make ears, by cutting a circle of pink card stock, then cutting it in half and shaping it into ears with my scissors. I gave this card to my niece, who LOVES Peter Rabbit.
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| Pink and brown buttons made very cute little pigs on this card. I used some water based felt tip pens to draw ears, legs and tails around the buttons and some goggle eyes to add to the bigger buttons. I had a grunge stamp set which I used to make splats of 'mud' around the pigs. You could use a paint brush and flick big splotches of brown ink on your card instead. The tag was from a kit I bought at a bargain centre with a simple Happy Birthday sentiment stamped on it. This card was for my pig-loving nephew. |
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| This was one of the first cards I made. I used three different sized circle punches to make this cat that is peeking out from behind the wall of patterned paper. I used a cat stamp to stamp on the face. The ears were cut with scissors out of black cardstock. I used a hexagon nested die set to make the framed sentiment. I had to add the adorable paw prints too. |
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| This Very Hungry Caterpillar was created using circles of green and yellow card stock, and one red circle. The eyes, feelers, nose, mouth and legs were cut using scissors. This one was so much fun. A sentiment die, a number 1 stamp and an alphabet stamp set worked together to make the sentiment. |
Cars!
I made this first card a few years ago for one of my nephews. He loves VW combi vans. I used circle punches, a rounded rectangle die and some circle shaped paper I bought at a bargain centre. I also used some circle and letter stickers. The only stamping is a simple Happy Birthday sentiment. It is clearly one of my earliest cards and not my best ever, but I'm still very proud of it. I did it with the most basic supplies and my nephew loved it... all that really matters.
I made this next card about a month ago. There are some number dies used here and a stamp set from Catherine Pooler. The supplies were not so basic to get the overall look. However, I wanted to draw your attention to the logo. This was a joint effort with my Mum. I cut out the circle frame using two circle dies. My mum drew the inside shape with pencil on the back and cut it out with a craft knife. I glued them together to make this logo. It is supposed to be a Mercedes logo. It's not perfect, but it's close enough and my cousin (who loves Mercedes cars) thought this card was awesome. Mission Accomplished.
Baby Cards
Both of these cards are so cute. I made them using circle punches, a trimmer and a pair of scissors. So easy and very effective. I just realised that both of these cards are for boys. However, you could easily make them for girls by changing up the colour. You could also make these cards using more gender neutral colours such as a mint green or purple.
Celebration cards
Here, I have used circle punches to make balloons. You can add texture to the balloons using embossing folders or even heat embossing if you have those supples. However, simply using patterned paper or plain coloured cardstock can be very effective too. Both of these cards happen to be for big birthdays, but I have used this sort of design for several other celebrations including new babies, graduation and retirement. This is a good design to fall back on when you want to make something cute, but you don't know what to make. It uses very basic supplies too.
This is only the beginning. Come back next week, for more cards created using basic shapes, including some basic shape stamps.
